Jul 16, 2020 | Business, Featured, Robots, Work
Amazon announced plans Wednesday to open a new fulfillment center in Pflugerville, Texas, where some employees will work alongside robots. The retail giant is expected to launch the new 820,000-square-foot site in 2021...
Jul 16, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured
Some Utah firefighters are getting some help to detect wildfires before flames are visible. The EDWIN Project (Early Detection Wildfire Imaging Network) uses cameras with artificial intelligence (A.I.) to seek out hot spots in wildfires among the hills...
Jul 9, 2020 | Detroit, Featured, Government, Mobility
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer formalized the launch of an Office of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME) last week to support transportation innovation efforts already underway in cities across the state. Chief Mobility Officer Trevor Pawl told Smart...
Jul 9, 2020 | 5G, Featured, Healthcare
But because 5G technology is so new, little is known about the potential health effects from its radiofrequency radiation, which is higher than the current industry standard 4G. The Oregon State study begins to change that. “Based on our study, we don’t...
Jul 9, 2020 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots
As the coronavirus pandemic rewrites the rules of human interaction, it also has inspired new thinking about how robots and other machines might step in. The stuff of the bot world — early factory-line automation up to today’s artificial intelligence — has been...
Jul 9, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Featured
Tesla founder Elon Musk said Thursday that the world’s recently crowned most valuable auto company could achieve a fully autonomous car by the end of 2020. Musk, who has made premature predictions about the advent of completely autonomous cars before, offered...
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